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Originally Posted by towny
I beg to differ. Fathers 4 Justice has mounted a prolonged and highly visible publicity campaign that has begun to focus public attention on their issue. They have done so by causing disruption, yet without putting anyone's life in danger, thus not alienating public opinion. Our modern political system is highly sensitive to public opinion and media attention. The politicians may whinge that these tactics will only result in them being excluded from the table, but history shows otherwise. The Suffragettes took similar direct action (and more extreme measures in many cases) and in the end they got what they wanted. I don't see this as any different. The threats and warnings about excluding F4J from any talks are really quite a clumsy attemt to get them to put a stop to their really rather effective pubilcity campaign.
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This is not the kind of stunt that any body that wishes to be taken seriously mounts - this is the kind of last ditch effort once they've got nowhere in their discussion - but the fact is that these meetings are due to take place soon - so why do this now?
It's childish and petty - but very funny, whilst being a serious security issue all at the same time - but the one thing is wasn't was clever.